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Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury is being planned for May after positive negotiations

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Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury is being planned for May after positive negotiations

Anthony Joshua against Tyson Fury is being planned for May after fresh talks, but Oleksandr Usyk’s WBO mandatory title shot is an ‘issue’, says promoter Eddie Hearn.

Joshua retained his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight belts with a ninth-round knockout of Kubrat Pulev on Saturday, which kept him on course for an undisputed title fight against WBC champion Tyson Fury next year.

“I think we’re all in the same position. We want to move forward with the fight, quickly as well, which is good news for fans.

“Just trying to solve any remaining issues of the fight, of which there aren’t many, to be honest with you, and try and move forward collectively to let the governing bodies know that we plan to stage this fight probably in May, and we would like this to be for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world.

“A few small issues to iron out, but I think we can start look at drawing up contracts and try to get this moving.

“Here on both sides, every member of each team wants to do this fight. We all acknowledge this is the biggest fight in boxing, this is the best fight for both guys. This is for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. Why are you in the sport, if you don’t want this fight?”

Anthony Joshua against Tyson Fury is being planned for May after fresh talks, but Oleksandr Usyk’s WBO mandatory title shot is an ‘issue’, says promoter Eddie Hearn.

Joshua retained his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight belts with a ninth-round knockout of Kubrat Pulev on Saturday, which kept him on course for an undisputed title fight against WBC champion Tyson Fury next year.

Hearn has already held “positive” negotiations with Fury’s US promoter Bob Arum as they attempt to finalise a two-fight deal, with the rematch to take place in November or December.

Fury is currently undergoing a mediation process with Deontay Wilder following a dispute about a third WBC title fight, while Joshua must fulfil a mandatory defence of his WBO belt against Usyk.

Hearn will appeal to the WBO to allow Joshua versus Fury first, while he is hopeful that the Wilder situation will be resolved.

“If you listen to Bob, that’s not a problem,” said Hearn. “He is a lawyer and he knows his contracts and he tells us that Tyson Fury is contractually free to take any fight he wants.

“I do believe Deontay Wilder is appealing that, in the US courts, but we don’t expect that to be a problem.

“Ultimately the big issue for Anthony Joshua is he has a WBO mandatory now. We will be writing to the WBO to say you have an opportunity to be part of the biggest fight in boxing. One of the biggest fights in boxing history.

“Oleksandr Usyk is the WBO mandatory, we have to respect that, and the rules as well. We’ll be speaking to him to make sure he’s happy with a potential resolution.

“But for any reason Tyson Fury can’t contractually fight Anthony Joshua, AJ will fight Oleksandr Usyk next.

“For us, Usyk is a great fighter, it’s a great fight, there is only one name that we’re focusing on and that is Tyson Fury.”

4:05

Joshua has reiterated his desire to fight Fury for the WBC belt

Will Usyk allow AJ vs Fury to happen?

WBO president Paco Valcarcel appeared to indicate that a mandatory defence would be enforced on Joshua, who would risk losing the belt if he did not fulfil a fight against Usyk.

He tweeted: “[Promoter] Eddie Hearn knows the meaning of commitment.

“The ball is in Hearn’s court.”

0:49

Usyk’s co-promoter Alexander Krassyuk, who works alongside Hearn, exclusively told Sky Sports: “My prediction, my plan and our strategy is to make AJ vs Usyk in April or May 2021.

“This is the WBO who has the power to enforce the champion for the mandatory.

“Though everyone wants to see AJ fighting Fury I don’t feel this fight is likely to happen soon.”

On Joshua’s knockout of Pulev, Krassyuk added: “I did not discuss AJ’s performance with Usyk yet but must admit AJ looked quite convincing.”

The WBO’s stance would seemingly leave Joshua with two choices – defend his title against Usyk next or vacate it to move straight into a fight with Fury.

  Anthony Joshua knocked out Kubrat Pulev to edge closer to a dream fight against Tyson Fury.

Wilder and Fury may still meet again

A further complication to the undisputed title fight is Fury’s situation regarding a third fight with Deontay Wilder.

Fury shelved the planned trilogy this month but has since been forced to enter a mediation process because Wilder is keen to agree terms to share the ring again.

The WBC told Sky Sports that they would give their “full support” to a third Fury vs Wilder fight in 2021.

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman said: “Wilder is a tremendous, important element. He was five years champion of the WBC. Extremely loyal.

“The greatest knockout ratio. The percentage is unbelievable and he is a very dear fighter, a champion in the WBC and he deserves, of course, another opportunity.

“He gave Tyson Fury the opportunity and Tyson Fury beat him, knocked him out, and, of course, Wilder is in the mix.

“He deserves an opportunity and we will see how things evolve in the coming year.

“We’re just hoping that everything gets resolved and everybody is happy and we see great fights inside the ring.”

Will Joshua fight Fury in 2021?

Joshua told Sky Sports after dispatching Pulev: “I started this game in 2013. I’ve been chasing all the belts. I’ve been dealing with mandatories.

“Of course I want the challenge. It’s not about the opponent, it’s about the legacy and the belt. Whoever has got the belt, I would love to compete with them. If that is Tyson Fury, let it be Tyson Fury. It’s no big deal.

“It’s one fight at a time, picking them off one by one. That’s all it’s about for me. I’ve got to stay focused.”

Joshua’s promoter Hearn added: “There’s been a lot of talk. As he said, it’s less talk, more action. Since he came into the office, he wanted to be the undisputed champion of the world.

“We’re going to be friendly, we’re going to be nice. We know what we have to do. Starting from [Sunday], we make the Tyson Fury fight straight away.

“It’s the only fight to be made in boxing. It’s the biggest fight in boxing. It’s the biggest fight in British boxing history.

“I know he [Joshua] wants it. He is the best heavyweight in the world, I promise you. He’ll break him down, he’ll knock him out, but for me, less talk, more action.

“We know what we want to do. It’s about legacy and we will get it done.”

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Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury is being planned for May after positive negotiations

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Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury is being planned for May after positive negotiations

Anthony Joshua against Tyson Fury is being planned for May after fresh talks, but Oleksandr Usyk’s WBO mandatory title shot is an ‘issue’, says promoter Eddie Hearn.

Joshua retained his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight belts with a ninth-round knockout of Kubrat Pulev on Saturday, which kept him on course for an undisputed title fight against WBC champion Tyson Fury next year.

  Anthony Joshua against Tyson Fury is being planned for May after fresh talks, but Oleksandr Usyk’s WBO mandatory title shot is an ‘issue’, says promoter Eddie Hearn.

Joshua retained his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight belts with a ninth-round knockout of Kubrat Pulev on Saturday, which kept him on course for an undisputed title fight against WBC champion Tyson Fury next year.

Hearn has already held “positive” negotiations with Fury’s US promoter Bob Arum as they attempt to finalise a two-fight deal, with the rematch to take place in November or December.

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Joshua vs Pulev result: Anthony Joshua delivers knockout in ninth round after commanding display

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Joshua vs Pulev result: Anthony Joshua delivers knockout in ninth round after commanding display

World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on Saturday night retained all three of his belts by thwarting the game challenge of Bulgaria’s Kubrat Pulev inside nine rounds at London’s Wembley Arena.

To the cheers of the 1,000 fans allowed inside the venue, and with Floyd Mayweather watching at ringside, Joshua knocked down Pulev twice in the third round and twice more in the ninth to keep an all-British unification battle with Tyson Fury well on track for 2021.

The fight, Joshua’s 25th as a professional, began slowly, with both fighters using the opening round to test one another’s control of distance.

It then exploded in a dramatic third round when Joshua stood his ground and let his right hand go, landing it in the form of a cross, which hurt and later dropped Pulev, and also as an uppercut, which had the same impact. Legs unsteady, but spitting defiance, Pulev seemed on the brink of being stopped.

Yet somehow he stuck in there. Better than that, Pulev (28-2), recovered well enough in the fourth to win the round, gambling now with right crosses of his own.

Ultimately, though, it was Joshua (24-1), who had the edge in power and this showed in the ninth when he once again stood in range with Pulev.

Uppercuts this time did the trick, a series of them dropping Pulev to his knees, before a final right cross left Pulev flat on his back and gave referee Deon Dwarte of South Africa no option but to wave the fight over.

Now, with Pulev duly beaten, the talk is of Joshua and Fury meeting next year in a heavyweight blockbuster, likely to take place in Saudi Arabia. Joshua and Fury own all four of the major heavyweight titles and have in the past 12 months clearly established themselves as the top two fighters in the division.

Earlier, Hackney’s Lawrence Okolie had been hoping to become WBO world cruiserweight champion but, following the withdrawal of original opponent Krzysztof Glowacki, had to settle for taking out his frustrations on Nikodem Jezewski, who he stopped inside two rounds.

Okolie, with a 15-0 record, was quick to drop Jezewski with a body shot in round one before making a greater impression on his Polish opponent with a straight right cross, which caught Jezewski (19-1-1) on the temple and put him on the floor for a second time.

Jezewski, who had fought outside Poland only twice before, was clearly overwhelmed, both by the occasion and Okolie’s power, and was finally stopped 1 min 45 sec into the second round.

Anthony Joshua vs Kubrat Pulev fight, in pictures

A decent heavyweight fight between Martin Bakole (16-1) and Sergey Kuzmin, (15-2), ended with Bakole taking a unanimous decision (98-92, 97-93, 96-94).

The two fighters entered the ring with almost identical records and had previously come unstuck against fringe contender Michael Hunter.

Together, though, their styles blended well and they were happy to trade power shots from close range, with Bakole’s jab the difference.

Also at heavyweight, Hughie Fury was uncharacteristically aggressive in a messy fight against tough Pole Mariusz Wach, winning by scores of 100-90 (twice) and 99-91 after 10 rounds.

With straight punches at a premium, Fury (25-3), mauled his way to victory against Wach (36-7) and admirably fought with a bad cut by his left eye.

Northampton’s Kieron Conway (16-1-1), dominated substitute opponent Macaulay McGowan (14-2-1), at super-welterweight, taking a unanimous decision by scores of 100-90, 100-89 (twice).

McGowan, a big character with an even bigger heart, kept coming forward and applying pressure but was outclassed throughout by Conway’s cleaner work on the back foot and was put on the floor in round eight.

In something of a surprise, unheralded Jamie Stewart seemed fortunate to come away with a draw against Albania’s Florian Marku at welterweight.

Southpaw Marku (7-0-1), a big talker with a point to prove, started the bout strongly, dropping Stewart with a body shot in the second round, and won the majority of rounds on work-rate alone.

Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury: when might biggest British heavyweight fight in history take place?

An inability to finish, however, came back to haunt Marku, with Stewart (2-0-1), gutsy in the final couple of rounds, somehow doing enough on referee Marcus McDonnell’s scorecard to earn a draw.

McDonnell, the sole scorer, delivered a card of 76-76 at the bout’s conclusion, much to the consternation of Marku and those watching at ringside.

In the first bout of the evening, a fast start by super-bantamweight Qais Ashfaq (9-1) earned a first-round knockdown against Bristol’s Ashley Lane (14-10-2), as well as a second knockdown in the third, before a sustained attack secured a stoppage in the fourth.

  12:31am

He certainly proved a few things tonight

12:26am

Eddie Hearn

“Starting from tomorrow, we make the Tyson Fury fight straight away. It’s the only fight to be made in boxing. It is the biggest fight in British boxing history.

“I know he (Joshua) wants it, He is the best heavyweight in the world, I promise you. He’ll break him down, he’ll knock him out.”

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Joshua vs Pulev result: Anthony Joshua delivers knockout in ninth round after commanding display

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Joshua vs Pulev result: Anthony Joshua delivers knockout in ninth round after commanding display

World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua on Saturday night retained all three of his belts by thwarting the game challenge of Bulgaria’s Kubrat Pulev inside nine rounds at London’s Wembley Arena.

To the cheers of the 1,000 fans allowed inside the venue, and with Floyd Mayweather watching at ringside, Joshua knocked down Pulev twice in the third round and twice more in the ninth to keep an all-British unification battle with Tyson Fury well on track for 2021.

The fight, Joshua’s 25th as a professional, began slowly, with both fighters using the opening round to test one another’s control of distance.

It then exploded in a dramatic third round when Joshua stood his ground and let his right hand go, landing it in the form of a cross, which hurt and later dropped Pulev, and also as an uppercut, which had the same impact. Legs unsteady, but spitting defiance, Pulev seemed on the brink of being stopped.

Yet somehow he stuck in there. Better than that, Pulev (28-2), recovered well enough in the fourth to win the round, gambling now with right crosses of his own.

Ultimately, though, it was Joshua (24-1), who had the edge in power and this showed in the ninth when he once again stood in range with Pulev.

Uppercuts this time did the trick, a series of them dropping Pulev to his knees, before a final right cross left Pulev flat on his back and gave referee Deon Dwarte of South Africa no option but to wave the fight over.

Now, with Pulev duly beaten, the talk is of Joshua and Fury meeting next year in a heavyweight blockbuster, likely to take place in Saudi Arabia. Joshua and Fury own all four of the major heavyweight titles and have in the past 12 months clearly established themselves as the top two fighters in the division.

Earlier, Hackney’s Lawrence Okolie had been hoping to become WBO world cruiserweight champion but, following the withdrawal of original opponent Krzysztof Glowacki, had to settle for taking out his frustrations on Nikodem Jezewski, who he stopped inside two rounds.

Okolie, with a 15-0 record, was quick to drop Jezewski with a body shot in round one before making a greater impression on his Polish opponent with a straight right cross, which caught Jezewski (19-1-1) on the temple and put him on the floor for a second time.

Jezewski, who had fought outside Poland only twice before, was clearly overwhelmed, both by the occasion and Okolie’s power, and was finally stopped 1 min 45 sec into the second round.

Anthony Joshua vs Kubrat Pulev fight, in pictures

A decent heavyweight fight between Martin Bakole (16-1) and Sergey Kuzmin, (15-2), ended with Bakole taking a unanimous decision (98-92, 97-93, 96-94).

The two fighters entered the ring with almost identical records and had previously come unstuck against fringe contender Michael Hunter.

Together, though, their styles blended well and they were happy to trade power shots from close range, with Bakole’s jab the difference.

Also at heavyweight, Hughie Fury was uncharacteristically aggressive in a messy fight against tough Pole Mariusz Wach, winning by scores of 100-90 (twice) and 99-91 after 10 rounds.

With straight punches at a premium, Fury (25-3), mauled his way to victory against Wach (36-7) and admirably fought with a bad cut by his left eye.

Northampton’s Kieron Conway (16-1-1), dominated substitute opponent Macaulay McGowan (14-2-1), at super-welterweight, taking a unanimous decision by scores of 100-90, 100-89 (twice).

McGowan, a big character with an even bigger heart, kept coming forward and applying pressure but was outclassed throughout by Conway’s cleaner work on the back foot and was put on the floor in round eight.

In something of a surprise, unheralded Jamie Stewart seemed fortunate to come away with a draw against Albania’s Florian Marku at welterweight.

Southpaw Marku (7-0-1), a big talker with a point to prove, started the bout strongly, dropping Stewart with a body shot in the second round, and won the majority of rounds on work-rate alone.

Anthony Joshua vs Tyson Fury: when might biggest British heavyweight fight in history take place?

An inability to finish, however, came back to haunt Marku, with Stewart (2-0-1), gutsy in the final couple of rounds, somehow doing enough on referee Marcus McDonnell’s scorecard to earn a draw.

McDonnell, the sole scorer, delivered a card of 76-76 at the bout’s conclusion, much to the consternation of Marku and those watching at ringside.

In the first bout of the evening, a fast start by super-bantamweight Qais Ashfaq (9-1) earned a first-round knockdown against Bristol’s Ashley Lane (14-10-2), as well as a second knockdown in the third, before a sustained attack secured a stoppage in the fourth.

  12:31am

He certainly proved a few things tonight

12:26am

Eddie Hearn

“Starting from tomorrow, we make the Tyson Fury fight straight away. It’s the only fight to be made in boxing. It is the biggest fight in British boxing history.

“I know he (Joshua) wants it, He is the best heavyweight in the world, I promise you. He’ll break him down, he’ll knock him out.”

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Anthony Joshua has done MORE sparring to combat ring rust, laid off weights to focus on boxing

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Anthony Joshua has done MORE sparring to combat ring rust, laid off weights to focus on boxing

Anthony Joshua has done MORE sparring to combat ring rust, laid off weights to focus on boxing, brought in Kubrat Pulev clones – and David Ghansa says training has felt like ‘being in Ivan Drago’s lab’ with TWO Covid tests a week

Anthony Joshua’s training camp for Kubrat Pulev was far from being normal 

Joshua’s camp has focused on similar aspects to his last one for Andy Ruiz Jr

Camp manager David Ghansa said some sparring partners were unable to fly in 

AJ’s sparring partners were handpicked to have similar attributes to Pulev

The Brit defends his world heavyweight titles against Pulev on Saturday night

Covid tests, logistical nightmares and bio-secure bubbles. This was far from anything that resembled a normal training camp for Anthony Joshua, but in his line of work you have to roll with the punches.

Ordinarily the operation runs smoothly and goes off without a hitch, but we are not in ordinary times. Coronavirus created hurdles that needed negotiating and made it impossible for Joshua’s team to run his camp business as usual.

There were times when plans had to be ripped up and thrown out of the window – at one stage Joshua’s entire schedule, for eating, sleeping and training, was plunged into disarray and had to be completely altered just because one local gym he was using in Sheffield was forced to change its working hours due to the government’s tier system.

  Anthony Joshua has focused heavily on his boxing in his training camp to fight Kubrat Pulev

  AJ defends his world heavyweight titles against the Bulgarian (R) this Saturday night in London

Even Joshua’s training manager David Ghansa admitted it felt more like being surrounded by scientists in ‘Ivan Drago’s lab’ than a normal camp.

‘We have been getting tested regularly, most of the time it’s twice a week,’ he told Sportsmail.

‘Every time we fly somebody in from a new country we are testing them.

‘Everyone is walking around with their masks on, distancing and working out in separate areas. It took a lot of getting used to but we adapted to it.’

Despite testing circumstances, Joshua and his team battled through the adversity in true Rocky spirit, making the best of a bad situation to get him primed and ready to deal with Kubrat Pulev.

Joshua has done less strength and conditioning training despite what he puts out on Instagram

  Joshua’s training manager David Ghansa (second to AJ’s right) revealed how different this camp was to normal ones because of coronavirus restrictions

  Ghansa admitted it felt more like being in ‘Ivan Drago’s lab’ (pictured) than a normal camp

Fortunately, any major change to Joshua’s training operation had already been tweaked before the Andy Ruiz Jr rematch, so that was one less adjustment they had to worry about.

Before that fight, Joshua had realigned his focus to his ringcraft and technique while his sparring was tailored to Ruiz Jr.

The fruits of his work in the gym bore evident results as a leaner and slicker Joshua jabbed and moved his way to redemption in the Saudi Arabian desert.

Pulev presents an entirely different puzzle to crack but Joshua and his team are confident the same algorithm which won AJ his world heavyweight titles back will serve him well again.

‘We have done the same as the Ruiz camp in that we have brought in sparring partners with similar styles to Pulev’s,’ Ghansa added.

‘We’ve watched him and dissected his game and looked at everything he does well. We know he has a good jab so instead of finding a carbon copy of Pulev we looked at who are the best jabbers around and who has got a similar jab to his.

‘We don’t care if you throw anything else so if you do come, obviously sparring is sparring, but we work with the partners so we got them to keep jabbing because it works for us.

Joshua (left) pictured with sparring partners Bryant Jennings (middle) and David Adeleye (right) and his camp manager Ghansa (front)

The Watford-born star is focusing on himself while his team adapt his regime around him

‘We got people in with all the right attributes but it’s quite funny because most of the time it’s the training team’s decision and AJ isn’t aware of it because he is more focused on what he’s doing and not what Pulev’s going to do.

‘So it’s our way of subconsciously getting him used to fighting that style or dealing with a certain problem without him being too aware of it.’

Joshua’s main sparring partners for his camp have been Martin Bakole, Bryant Jennings, Hosea Stewart, Gerald Washington, Delicious Orie, David Adeleye, Christian Thun, Frazer Clarke, Peter Kadiru and Fabio Wardley.

Ghansa revealed there were other heavyweights he wanted to recruit for sparring but was prevented because of travelling restrictions due to coronavirus.

‘At the start of camp we did worry that it seemed like we were going to struggle to get sparring partners over. There were a couple of fighters we wanted to fly in for this camp but couldn’t because of Covid,’ he said.

‘Namewise they are nothing to scream and shout about, it was more like trying to get people in last minute. There was a guy from Croatia but living in Russia. We wanted him to come in but he needed to get a Covid test, and the result had to be 48 hours before his flight but no test centres where he was could turn it around that quickly so it literally became impossible to use him.’

So what other problems has the pandemic caused? ‘When we started camp, Sheffield was put into tier two so a local gym we were using could only open between certain times,’ Ghansa said.

  Angel Fernandez (pictured on the pads with AJ) has played a role in his second camp with him

  Joshua has done more sparring in this camp than usual, having been out of the ring for a year

‘We had to completely flip AJ’s schedule because of it, so he was having to sleep earlier, train earlier, eat earlier. It became about just trying to cram everything in to a day.’

He added: ‘It has just been very different. We have partnered with a testing company and we work with a hotel anyway so have put the sparring partners up in there.

‘The hotel was only open for work purposes so there were NHS staff around in the same area as well. All the fighters were kept in the exact same room for the whole duration and tested regularly. It was pretty difficult for some of them.

‘Gerald Washington lives in Los Angeles so you can only imagine what great weather he gets and he’s by a beach and can go for runs by the sea and all of a sudden we put him in a small hotel room in sunny Sheffield as they say and it’s foggy everyday, there’s no foodstores open and he’s having to eat off Deliveroo. It wasn’t the easiest.’

Coaches Angel Fernandez and Joby Clayton, who were brought on board for the Ruiz rematch, are now permanent fixtures in Joshua’s team and played a key role in this camp alongside head trainer Rob McCracken.

The heavyweight champion was delighted by the adjustments he made for his last fight and subsequently wanted this camp to be similar, instead of reverting back to his old ways of preparation.

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Joshua’s team are aware of Pulev’s solid jab and picked sparring partners with similar ones

  Ghansa (middle) revealed everyone in AJ’s bubble is being tested for Covid twice a week

‘The camp has gone really well considering everything,’ Ghansa said. ‘Training wise we have just been teeing off from the last fight.

‘We’ve done a few things differently. His strength training for this camp, he hasn’t actually done too many weights. I know what we put out on Instagram might look a bit different, of him doing deadlifts or bench pressing, but the amount of time spent on it is not that much.

‘If you looked at his timetable, you’d be like: “Bloody hell it is just boxing”. All type of sessions are boxing now instead of fitness and strength.’

Come fight night, it will have been just over a year since Joshua last stepped through the ropes but Ghansa is convinced the long lay-off will not be a factor.

‘His year out shouldn’t show. He’s done a lot of sparring, a lot of sparring and that is the closest thing you can get to the real thing. You could say we’ve done extra just to be sure.’

There may have been a few more bumps in the road to get AJ battle ready, but they expect normal service to resume for him on Saturday night. Then next stop, Tyson Fury.

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Anthony Joshua has done MORE sparring to combat ring rust, laid off weights to focus on boxing

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Anthony Joshua has done MORE sparring to combat ring rust, laid off weights to focus on boxing

Anthony Joshua has done MORE sparring to combat ring rust, laid off weights to focus on boxing, brought in Kubrat Pulev clones – and David Ghansa says training has felt like ‘being in Ivan Drago’s lab’ with TWO Covid tests a week

Anthony Joshua’s training camp for Kubrat Pulev was far from being normal 

Joshua’s camp has focused on similar aspects to his last one for Andy Ruiz Jr

Camp manager David Ghansa said some sparring partners were unable to fly in 

AJ’s sparring partners were handpicked to have similar attributes to Pulev

The Brit defends his world heavyweight titles against Pulev on Saturday night

Covid tests, logistical nightmares and bio-secure bubbles. This was far from anything that resembled a normal training camp for Anthony Joshua, but in his line of work you have to roll with the punches.

Ordinarily the operation runs smoothly and goes off without a hitch, but we are not in ordinary times. Coronavirus created hurdles that needed negotiating and made it impossible for Joshua’s team to run his camp business as usual.

There were times when plans had to be ripped up and thrown out of the window – at one stage Joshua’s entire schedule, for eating, sleeping and training, was plunged into disarray and had to be completely altered just because one local gym he was using in Sheffield was forced to change its working hours due to the government’s tier system.

  Anthony Joshua has focused heavily on his boxing in his training camp to fight Kubrat Pulev

  AJ defends his world heavyweight titles against the Bulgarian (R) this Saturday night in London

Even Joshua’s training manager David Ghansa admitted it felt more like being surrounded by scientists in ‘Ivan Drago’s lab’ than a normal camp.

‘We have been getting tested regularly, most of the time it’s twice a week,’ he told Sportsmail.

‘Every time we fly somebody in from a new country we are testing them.

‘Everyone is walking around with their masks on, distancing and working out in separate areas. It took a lot of getting used to but we adapted to it.’

Despite testing circumstances, Joshua and his team battled through the adversity in true Rocky spirit, making the best of a bad situation to get him primed and ready to deal with Kubrat Pulev.

Joshua has done less strength and conditioning training despite what he puts out on Instagram

  Joshua’s training manager David Ghansa (second to AJ’s right) revealed how different this camp was to normal ones because of coronavirus restrictions

  Ghansa admitted it felt more like being in ‘Ivan Drago’s lab’ (pictured) than a normal camp

Fortunately, any major change to Joshua’s training operation had already been tweaked before the Andy Ruiz Jr rematch, so that was one less adjustment they had to worry about.

Before that fight, Joshua had realigned his focus to his ringcraft and technique while his sparring was tailored to Ruiz Jr.

The fruits of his work in the gym bore evident results as a leaner and slicker Joshua jabbed and moved his way to redemption in the Saudi Arabian desert.

Pulev presents an entirely different puzzle to crack but Joshua and his team are confident the same algorithm which won AJ his world heavyweight titles back will serve him well again.

‘We have done the same as the Ruiz camp in that we have brought in sparring partners with similar styles to Pulev’s,’ Ghansa added.

‘We’ve watched him and dissected his game and looked at everything he does well. We know he has a good jab so instead of finding a carbon copy of Pulev we looked at who are the best jabbers around and who has got a similar jab to his.

‘We don’t care if you throw anything else so if you do come, obviously sparring is sparring, but we work with the partners so we got them to keep jabbing because it works for us.

Joshua (left) pictured with sparring partners Bryant Jennings (middle) and David Adeleye (right) and his camp manager Ghansa (front)

The Watford-born star is focusing on himself while his team adapt his regime around him

‘We got people in with all the right attributes but it’s quite funny because most of the time it’s the training team’s decision and AJ isn’t aware of it because he is more focused on what he’s doing and not what Pulev’s going to do.

‘So it’s our way of subconsciously getting him used to fighting that style or dealing with a certain problem without him being too aware of it.’

Joshua’s main sparring partners for his camp have been Martin Bakole, Bryant Jennings, Hosea Stewart, Gerald Washington, Delicious Orie, David Adeleye, Christian Thun, Frazer Clarke, Peter Kadiru and Fabio Wardley.

Ghansa revealed there were other heavyweights he wanted to recruit for sparring but was prevented because of travelling restrictions due to coronavirus.

‘At the start of camp we did worry that it seemed like we were going to struggle to get sparring partners over. There were a couple of fighters we wanted to fly in for this camp but couldn’t because of Covid,’ he said.

‘Namewise they are nothing to scream and shout about, it was more like trying to get people in last minute. There was a guy from Croatia but living in Russia. We wanted him to come in but he needed to get a Covid test, and the result had to be 48 hours before his flight but no test centres where he was could turn it around that quickly so it literally became impossible to use him.’

So what other problems has the pandemic caused? ‘When we started camp, Sheffield was put into tier two so a local gym we were using could only open between certain times,’ Ghansa said.

  Angel Fernandez (pictured on the pads with AJ) has played a role in his second camp with him

  Joshua has done more sparring in this camp than usual, having been out of the ring for a year

‘We had to completely flip AJ’s schedule because of it, so he was having to sleep earlier, train earlier, eat earlier. It became about just trying to cram everything in to a day.’

He added: ‘It has just been very different. We have partnered with a testing company and we work with a hotel anyway so have put the sparring partners up in there.

‘The hotel was only open for work purposes so there were NHS staff around in the same area as well. All the fighters were kept in the exact same room for the whole duration and tested regularly. It was pretty difficult for some of them.

‘Gerald Washington lives in Los Angeles so you can only imagine what great weather he gets and he’s by a beach and can go for runs by the sea and all of a sudden we put him in a small hotel room in sunny Sheffield as they say and it’s foggy everyday, there’s no foodstores open and he’s having to eat off Deliveroo. It wasn’t the easiest.’

Coaches Angel Fernandez and Joby Clayton, who were brought on board for the Ruiz rematch, are now permanent fixtures in Joshua’s team and played a key role in this camp alongside head trainer Rob McCracken.

The heavyweight champion was delighted by the adjustments he made for his last fight and subsequently wanted this camp to be similar, instead of reverting back to his old ways of preparation.

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Joshua’s team are aware of Pulev’s solid jab and picked sparring partners with similar ones

  Ghansa (middle) revealed everyone in AJ’s bubble is being tested for Covid twice a week

‘The camp has gone really well considering everything,’ Ghansa said. ‘Training wise we have just been teeing off from the last fight.

‘We’ve done a few things differently. His strength training for this camp, he hasn’t actually done too many weights. I know what we put out on Instagram might look a bit different, of him doing deadlifts or bench pressing, but the amount of time spent on it is not that much.

‘If you looked at his timetable, you’d be like: “Bloody hell it is just boxing”. All type of sessions are boxing now instead of fitness and strength.’

Come fight night, it will have been just over a year since Joshua last stepped through the ropes but Ghansa is convinced the long lay-off will not be a factor.

‘His year out shouldn’t show. He’s done a lot of sparring, a lot of sparring and that is the closest thing you can get to the real thing. You could say we’ve done extra just to be sure.’

There may have been a few more bumps in the road to get AJ battle ready, but they expect normal service to resume for him on Saturday night. Then next stop, Tyson Fury.

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Insists shock result would not devalue all British showdown between AJ and Tyson Fury in 2021

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Insists shock result would not devalue all British showdown between AJ and Tyson Fury in 2021

Bob Arum is predicting a shock upset in the heavyweight ranks, as the legendary boxing promotor is backing Kubrat Pulev to defeat WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO champion Anthony Joshua.

Joshua, 31, is set to take on IBF mandatory challenger Pulev on December 12, in what will be the Brit’s first fight in a year following his avenging of his sole defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019.

AJ is expected to overcome the Bulgarian and take a huge stride towards a mammoth unification bout with WBC champion Tyson Fury, who is set to fight a week earlier against an unannounced opponent.

Legendary promotor Bob Arum is predicting a surprise Kubrat Pulev win over Anthony Joshua

Heavyweight Champion Joshua takes on IBF mandatory challenger Pulev on December 12

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Bob Arum is predicting a shock upset in the heavyweight ranks, as the legendary boxing promotor is backing Kubrat Pulev to defeat WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO champion Anthony Joshua.

Joshua, 31, is set to take on IBF mandatory challenger Pulev on December 12, in what will be the Brit’s first fight in a year following his avenging of his sole defeat to Andy Ruiz Jr in 2019.

AJ is expected to overcome the Bulgarian and take a huge stride towards a mammoth unification bout with WBC champion Tyson Fury, who is set to fight a week earlier against an unannounced opponent.

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Legendary promotor Bob Arum is predicting a surprise Kubrat Pulev win over Anthony Joshua

Heavyweight hampionshua takes on IBF mandatory challenger Pulev on December 12

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Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua must happen in the UK

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Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua must happen in the UK

For once, sports fans can believe the hype. If – when? – Tyson Fury fights Anthony Joshua in 2021, it will be the biggest event in British sport since the biggest event of them all.

“Come the week of this fight, it will be like England in the World Cup in 1966, that’s how big it will be,” Fury’s co-promoter Frank Warren told BT Sport. “Two British fighters with a tremendous rivalry between them. This is huge. This is a huge, huge fight.”

There are multiple obstacles to be overcome before the Gypsy King stares across the ring at AJ, including rival promoters, rival broadcasters and – not least – rival boxers, who will do their best to render our heroes unconscious before they get a chance to make sporting history. Both Fury and Joshua have brutally hard fights to negotiate before they can meet, and in heavyweight boxing the unscripted ending is never more than one big punch away. The good news is that there seems a genuine will in both camps to make this biggest of fights happen and how the money gets divided – what Warren calls “the financial element” – is reported to have been agreed. The not-so-good news is that the greatest fight in British boxing history seems likely to take place a very long way from Britain.

“People will say, ‘Why isn’t this happening in the UK?’” Warren told BT Sport. “I want it to be. I’d love it to be at Wembley. It’s where it should be. But a fight of this magnitude, and with what is on the line for both boxers, it’s a massive opportunity to capitalise [financially].”

“Boxing News understands that Macau, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and another country in the Middle East are under consideration,” reported the most authoritative voice in British boxing.

Fury vs Joshua will be essential viewing wherever it happens. But to rank alongside England’s only World Cup win, it needs to happen in front of 90,000 screaming locals, going bonkers. The fight would be different in London or Manchester or Cardiff than it would be in Singapore or Macau or Riyadh (the location of Joshua’s rematch with American fighter Andy Ruiz Jr, “The Clash On The Dunes”).

Because what we learned about sport in 2020 was this: fans matter. More than this, fans are crucial. Even – especially – if you are watching the blood-pumping drama unfurl on your HD TV, you need a stadium full of supporters who care to set the day ablaze. Even Arsenal vs Chelsea in the FA Cup final was not the same in a Wembley where everyone present was on first-name terms.

THERE MIGHT BE MORE MONEY FIGHTING IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BUT SPORTS FANS WOULD BE THE POORER FOR IT

When the Premier League returned in June after three months of lockdown, it tried to compensate for those weirdly empty stadia with “crowd enhancement”, football’s equivalent of canned laughter. At first, I cringed at the very idea. What could be phonier than pre-recorded excitement? But I soon found myself opting for “crowd enhancement” rather than the sound of silence. Better an ersatz atmosphere than no atmosphere at all.

“They have been saying that football is back, but it isn’t really,” wrote sports journalist Oliver Holt of the Premier League’s new normal. “What’s the point of staging a drama if it plays to empty theatres? I’m sorry, but I have been to a few matches behind closed doors and it has been interesting to watch the games and see moments of skill and expression, but let’s stop pretending football is back. What we have is a pale imitation of football.”

Fury and Joshua will not fight in an empty stadium, of course. But if their fight is in Riyadh or Macau, I suggest it might feel like it. When I was first taken to football matches as a child, the fans were treated like cattle. Now, we are treated like consumers. But what 2020 made clear is that it is those cynically exploited fans who dust our national sport – and all sport – with magic.

Without “the atmosphere” – the heady cocktail of agony and ecstasy, unalloyed joy and seething rage – sport struggles to rise above the level of light entertainment.

“The sights and the sounds of those empty stadiums has reminded us that fans are the game’s life-blood,” Holt insisted. “Broadcasters forced the Premier League to pay them a £330 million rebate for the portion of the season played behind closed doors because the absence of the fans and the atmosphere they create devalued the viewer experience�� The clubs should be paying them to come to matches rather than the other way round. Season tickets should be free.”

In every corner of the planet, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are reigning world champions. But in their home country they are loved and any fight between them will always mean much more here than it ever will in the Middle East or Asia.

Boxers have every right to maximise their earning potential in a sport where a career can end in one catastrophic moment. But Tyson vs Joshua is already sure to smash all previous pay-per-view records.

As Frank Warren correctly points out, there is nothing new in elite fighters having their career-defining fights in foreign parts. Indeed, the greatest boxer of all fought the greatest fights of his career under foreign skies: Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in Zaire in 1974 and vs Joe Frazier in the Philippines in 1975. But there will be a different kind of glory up for grabs if Fury and Joshua meet at Wembley than if they fight in some hushed hall in Saudi Arabia. Fury and Joshua might make more money fighting in the Middle East than in London but sports fans would be the poorer for it. And perhaps these two great champions – and they are both great champions – would be the poorer for it too.

Nothing can stop Fury vs Joshua being the biggest fight in the history of British boxing. Wherever it happens, it will be the sporting event of 2021. But if it doesn’t happen here, it will not be 1966.

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Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua must happen in the UK

For once, sports fans can believe the hype. If – when? – Tyson Fury fights Anthony Joshua in 2021, it will be the biggest event in British sport since the biggest event of them all.

“Come the week of this fight, it will be like England in the World Cup in 1966, that’s how big it will be,” Fury’s co-promoter Frank Warren told BT Sport. “Two British fighters with a tremendous rivalry between them. This is huge. This is a huge, huge fight.”

There are multiple obstacles to be overcome before the Gypsy King stares across the ring at AJ, including rival promoters, rival broadcasters and – not least – rival boxers, who will do their best to render our heroes unconscious before they get a chance to make sporting history. Both Fury and Joshua have brutally hard fights to negotiate before they can meet, and in heavyweight boxing the unscripted ending is never more than one big punch away. The good news is that there seems a genuine will in both camps to make this biggest of fights happen and how the money gets divided – what Warren calls “the financial element” – is reported to have been agreed. The not-so-good news is that the greatest fight in British boxing history seems likely to take place a very long way from Britain.

“People will say, ‘Why isn’t this happening in the UK?’” Warren told BT Sport. “I want it to be. I’d love it to be at Wembley. It’s where it should be. But a fight of this magnitude, and with what is on the line for both boxers, it’s a massive opportunity to capitalise [financially].”

“Boxing News understands that Macau, Singapore, Saudi Arabia and another country in the Middle East are under consideration,” reported the most authoritative voice in British boxing.

Fury vs Joshua will be essential viewing wherever it happens. But to rank alongside England’s only World Cup win, it needs to happen in front of 90,000 screaming locals, going bonkers. The fight would be different in London or Manchester or Cardiff than it would be in Singapore or Macau or Riyadh (the location of Joshua’s rematch with American fighter Andy Ruiz Jr, “The Clash On The Dunes”).

Because what we learned about sport in 2020 was this: fans matter. More than this, fans are crucial. Even – especially – if you are watching the blood-pumping drama unfurl on your HD TV, you need a stadium full of supporters who care to set the day ablaze. Even Arsenal vs Chelsea in the FA Cup final was not the same in a Wembley where everyone present was on first-name terms.

THERE MIGHT BE MORE MONEY FIGHTING IN THE MIDDLE EAST, BUT SPORTS FANS WOULD BE THE POORER FOR IT

When the Premier League returned in June after three months of lockdown, it tried to compensate for those weirdly empty stadia with “crowd enhancement”, football’s equivalent of canned laughter. At first, I cringed at the very idea. What could be phonier than pre-recorded excitement? But I soon found myself opting for “crowd enhancement” rather than the sound of silence. Better an ersatz atmosphere than no atmosphere at all.

“They have been saying that football is back, but it isn’t really,” wrote sports journalist Oliver Holt of the Premier League’s new normal. “What’s the point of staging a drama if it plays to empty theatres? I’m sorry, but I have been to a few matches behind closed doors and it has been interesting to watch the games and see moments of skill and expression, but let’s stop pretending football is back. What we have is a pale imitation of football.”

Fury and Joshua will not fight in an empty stadium, of course. But if their fight is in Riyadh or Macau, I suggest it might feel like it. When I was first taken to football matches as a child, the fans were treated like cattle. Now, we are treated like consumers. But what 2020 made clear is that it is those cynically exploited fans who dust our national sport – and all sport – with magic.

Without “the atmosphere” – the heady cocktail of agony and ecstasy, unalloyed joy and seething rage – sport struggles to rise above the level of light entertainment.

“The sights and the sounds of those empty stadiums has reminded us that fans are the game’s life-blood,” Holt insisted. “Broadcasters forced the Premier League to pay them a £330 million rebate for the portion of the season played behind closed doors because the absence of the fans and the atmosphere they create devalued the viewer experience… The clubs should be paying them to come to matches rather than the other way round. Season tickets should be free.”

In every corner of the planet, Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua are reigning world champions. But in their home country they are loved and any fight between them will always mean much more here than it ever will in the Middle East or Asia.

Boxers have every right to maximise their earning potential in a sport where a career can end in one catastrophic moment. But Tyson vs Joshua is already sure to smash all previous pay-per-view records.

As Frank Warren correctly points out, there is nothing new in elite fighters having their career-defining fights in foreign parts. Indeed, the greatest boxer of all fought the greatest fights of his career under foreign skies: Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman in Zaire in 1974 and vs Joe Frazier in the Philippines in 1975. But there will be a different kind of glory up for grabs if Fury and Joshua meet at Wembley than if they fight in some hushed hall in Saudi Arabia. Fury and Joshua might make more money fighting in the Middle East than in London but sports fans would be the poorer for it. And perhaps these two great champions – and they are both great champions – would be the poorer for it too.

Nothing can stop Fury vs Joshua being the biggest fight in the history of British boxing. Wherever it happens, it will be the sporting event of 2021. But if it doesn’t happen here, it will not be 1966.

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Israel Commits Itself To More Desalination

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Israel Commits Itself To More Desalination

Desalination is an expensive and energy-intensive way of removing salt from water to make it potable – Israel hopes it will provide 75% of its drinkable water 

Despite several problems with the use of desalination (such as high costs and energy usage) and calls from experts to consider other options first, the Middle East is embracing the water-creating technology at an alarming rate. As well as the expansion of desalination in the Gulf States, Israel recently announced that it would be building the country’s fifth desalination plant which – together with the four other plants – will supply 75% of the country’s drinking water by 2013.

The Israeli finance ministry has granted the license for the $423 million plant which will be built and operated by the national water carrier Mekorot. Following several years of drought, Mekorot Chairman Alex Wiznitzer told Ynet that the plants will allow Israel to restore its natural water resources. However Green Prophet reporter Lisa Damast has already explored the problems with a focus on desalination in Israel whilst ignoring water recycling and water conservation.

Desalination is no quick-fix, she explains, although if the campaign sponsored by the Israel Water Authority where viewers were told of the need to conserve water until desalination plants open in 2013 is anything to go by, many do seem to think it is. Water conservation is a much better and cheaper method to ensure that there is sufficient water, as is increasing the utilisation of grey-water as it’s estimated that 70% of all water used in Israeli homes is grey-water.

Indeed the poor water situation in the region (which is considered to be amongst the most water scarce in the world alongside Sub-Saharan Africa) is troubling and an answer is needed soon. Jordan has recently kick-started a campaign to monitor water theft in response to a water crisis in several parts of the Jordan Valley.

The authorities found nine violations and uncovered an illegal water pipe diverting the entire output of the Kafrein Dam Desalination Plant’s drinking water to several farms in the Jordan Valley. Clearly, a better solution is needed in terms of ensuring that the agricultural sector has the skills and techniques to conserve water and that citizens are convinced of the wisdom to conserve water – whether it’s abundant or not.

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